Poly Habitat Installation at IComm
A breakdown of the installation of the Poly Habitat installation in my office at IComm Australia
Category Archives: Lync / Skype4B
Forwarding Original Caller ID with Skype4B and Telstra SIP
So I recently had a customer request that they have an on call mobile display the number of the calling party when a line was diverted outside of business hours. Luckily they were using a standard client to do the call forwarding and not a response group, so it was simple to redirect the call… Read More »
Troubleshooting and Reading Surface Hub Logs
This article is one I thought I had written ages ago, but didn’t. So, here it is. Got a Surface hub that wont sign in to Skype and you cant figure out why? Well first make sure you can sign in with a normal Skype client 99% of Surface Hub issues are because of DNS… Read More »
Quickly Convert CSUsers into CSMeetingRooms with PowerShell
Okay, so your working on a roll out and you have provided the process on how to create meeting rooms to the IT team. But unfortunately someone in desktop support has already created all the meeting rooms using the Skype for Business Control Panel as a standard EV enabled Skype4B users? Don’t throw all their… Read More »
SIP Extension fails to register to Sonus SBC with error “Incomplete Message”
So I had a weird one recently that I had been troubleshooting for ages, a previously working paging unit was reconfigured to use a new IP address and would no longer register to the Sonus SBC2000. All the obvious things were checked… Sip Server table had been updated Federated IP/FQDN for the Signalling Group had… Read More »
Preparing for Teams: Decommissioning on Prem Persistent Chat
So, I’m starting a new series of posts called “Preparing for Teams” and how I’m helping my customers transition from Lync 2013 and Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams Today I’m talking about decommissioning your existing On Premises Persistent Chat servers as we have to moved these workloads into Teams Note this article doesn’t cover… Read More »
Stop Comparing Teams to Slack
There, I said it. I said the S word. More specifically Teams versus Slack. And no, I don’t hate Slack. I think its great actually! It has it’s place as do most productivity tools do. Heck, I still use it for our DnD sessions! But that’s because I don’t need anything more complicated than a… Read More »
Microsoft Ignite Day 1 Wrap Up
Well Satya delivered a compelling Keynote this year really pushing home the fact that the technology industry changes so rapidly.Driving one of our ideals that “Change is the only Constant” Looking back into the history of the Automotive industry and what happend to those who failed to adapt to new Electric power over the tried… Read More »
Microsoft Ignite Day 0 and session suggestions
Well. 15,000km later and I’m here in Orlando with plenty of time to recover from jetlag. So what do I do? Record a video for you guys of course. Here are my recommended sessions that if you’re still undecided on what’s worth checking out. Monday Must Do’s KEY01 – Vision Keynotehttps://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/66931 KEY04 – Transform your… Read More »
ProTips for Life at Microsoft Ignite
With Microsoft’s Ignite less than 60 days away some conversation has broken out on Twitter here and after sharing my thoughts there, I thought I’d throw a ton more up here. Not all of my recommendations may apply to you as I fly in from Australia. Typically about 24 hours of flying for those interested. But… Read More »